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with justice to all and prejudice I'NA1AEAT0 MAN toward none. Riot, rebellion and in City and secure a hall for lectures, wherein I say nothing but truth as vouched for in God's Word and in LABOR'S LAND. The United States the Eden of the Work-' ingniun Laws to Protect Him and How to Secure Them. that God will open the eyes of all our brethren and give them courage to abandon Rome, as I have done, I am your humble servant, terterence with labor at work, for various reasons, is a poor way to ac RIGHT OF JM SPEECH If Bishop McNamara's Statements are Pake They Can Easily be Disproven, Why do not Catholics An Open Letter From Bishop McMamara records undeniable. The ignorant and the vicious among your adherents complish good results.

to Bishop Eogan, of Kansas City. The Attention of James Vincent McNamaha, Late priest of Rome, and bishop of the Independent Reformed Catholic church. EOMAN CATHOLIC MEXICO. make the city hideous with curses, threats and lying accusations against me and against all who dare visit my Humanity lives off the products of labor that earns its bread by the sweat of its brow, according to the mandates of the Creator. Labor of the heart, mind and hand are elements of true manhood and the American labor will see the wrongs and by its vote will right them, if it will but throw aside its partisan affiliations and priestly instructions and vote as free men and citizens for officials who will frame laws in the auditorium.

Protestants and Catho Hurl. Facts at His Head, 'Catholics and Protestants lies flock to hear my presentation of What the Church 1)1(1 There Ig an Indica tlou of What It Would do In Our Free Land. Called to the Pacts Which Underlie the subjects proposed and to satisfy these that I am sincere and truthful, and employment of Libor improves man's morality. Manhood is the cornerstone of our national government. One May Speak Against and Even Wilfully Misrepresent Any Class of People, But None But Up to within about twenty years interest of labor and the American people and oppose the election of a certain class of lawyers and agents or working for the interests of both Existing Bitterness Eome Has no Eemedy for the Evil, ago no other religion, save that of classes, I issued a public -invitation to Rome, was tolerated.

It would have you and your priests to come, at my expense, and occupy ray platform cost a man his life to have uttered or ROME HURLS BRICKS. HATRED AND CURSES proclaimed a disbelief in Romanism, "two hours to my one" for a whole in that cauntvy, up to that date, be week if necessarv. that vou may, if Are Inspired by Eomish Doctrines and cause the Catholic Mexicans believed you can, prove to Catholics and pro- The "'Eepresentatives in Kansas City of the Lowly Uozarene" who said: "Love Tour Ememies." that in accordance with the so-called Only Aggravate the Already Hostile Feeling. testants that I am in the wrong and that you and your priests are in the It is among the laborers, including all that the truest patriotism and highest types of citizenship are to' be found. Many who do not want wo i are howling for it and they are usua the ones who foment demonstrations and precipitate riots and as a general thing, perform the functions of a walking delegate and nine cases out of ten investigation will disclose the fact that they are of the Roman Catholic faith; There is too much sentiment in this country thrown away on such vagabonds, who pose and pass as workingmen, whom they insult and infallible dogmas ot their church, that to murder a heretic (protestant) would be considered an act of merit and right on all or any of the points grace by both his church and Savior.

Have you accepted this invitation? Even now, protestants are occasionally representatives of corporations, capitalists or the Roman Catholic church, who rill use their influence against the people and against labor, in the interest of their clients. They cannot serve two masters without neglecting one or the other. They cannot serve Pecci, the pope, a foreign sovereign, and Uncle Sam. at the same time. There are plenty of good men, friends of labor and patriots, who will accept office and devote all their energies thereto, without deviding their influence in favor of corporation or church.

A majority of the United States congress is composed of attorneys or agents of corporations, capitalists or the church of Rome, and how can they be friends of labor when murdered in Mexico. Not long since Written for the Eagle. Kansas City, Jan. 30, 1894. To the Editor of the American Eagle.

I did not attend the McNamara lecture nor witness his now celebrated run for home; neither am I an A. P. but an uncompromising advocate of intellectual liberty, and free speech and its Or are you too lofty a personage to stoop to the work of enlightening a dissenting priestP Have you conde a lady school teacher was poisoned, to break up her school. And a Roman Catholic paper of Mexico recently de Special to The Eagle. You know the strained conditions existing in Kansas City in relation to matters which seriously affect the so-called Catholio people as well as the Protestants of this community; and I desire, through the medium of this open letter, to turn the attention of both classes to the facts which lie at the bottom of all this bitterness.

I do not ask you to apply a remedy to this evil, for your system furnishes no remedy in a case like this. Rome has nothing but hatred and curses for scended to meet the Catholics and protestants of Kansas City to preach before them the gospel of the blessed God and allow me even a little time clared that 'true charity is to wound and kill, if it be done for the church." injure. They are not to be classed amoag labor's friends. I corollary, the right to criticise the beliefs or no beliefs of any religion. A government that guarantees free- Only recently, in South America, aj in your presence to preach that same The events that have recently hap glorious Word? Several pened in Kansas City are pregnant Catholics of Kansas City with meaning to those who will read have accepted the gospel as I present it, and have witnessed the fact that you the signs of the times.

Ex-Priest Mc-Naniara recently lectured here and claimed to expose and hold up to detestation certain Roman Catholic those who differ from her, especially for those who are breaking away from her control and who feel called to let the world know the reasons for their Now the question a3 to whether he uepaiuuu liuiu uuiuiiuisui. -me uni decline to show a readiness to publicly disprove the propositions I advance. Others are looseniDg from Romanism because they doubt your ability to answer questions in which Catholics and protestants are interested. I am show red ana curses wnicn Komo inspires told the whole truth or only part of the truth, or deliberately calumniated that church has little bearing on the question at issue. into its followers only aggravate the they do not favor progress in American labor.

Home made goods and home manufactories are used, bought, sold and exchanged by friends of American or home labor. Laws modeled for the best interest of the whole people, regardless of nationality, party, sect or religion, personal or corporate interests, are laws in the interest of labor. As long as men are elected evil which Rome has injected into so ciety here as all over this nation. But The question is, had he or had he if people cannot look to you for the not a right to lecture on the subject? needed remedv. it will certainlv bene As an ex-priest he probably knows a fit protestants and Catholics to show great deal about the church he form the causes which have produced in erly served, and that's where most of the trouble seems to originate.

If his Kansas City the state of affairs exist ing that you ana your priests are withholding from the Irish and others, the truths of Holy Scripture and are shamefully extorting money from them for doctrines and ing here at present. statements are true 'tis well that people should know them to be true if to office on account of their when these causes are laid bare, it nationality, church or SO' will be comparatively easy for this population to remove the malady ciety and cannot stand on which has taken root among them. performances opposed to the teachings of our Lord and His apostles. You and your priests do your their own foundation, with manhood enough to refuse bribes in whatever shape Before I ever saw Kansas City your Satolli. "Come on Leo, old chap, I think I have what you want.

followers made it impossible for prot offered, just so long will the govern Methodist minister was imprisoned utmost to cast discredit upon the dom of speech and liberty of con science, as guaranteed by the Consti ment of the people be in the hands of delivered here for the purpose of three months, for preaching against the worship and idolatry of the Virgin showing the wrongs which protestants were suffering at the hands of those 'de push," political rings and ring-sters who elect themselves for their own good and not the good of the peo tution of the United States, is a friend of labor, and without it the workmen of America to-day would be on a level Mary. calling themselves Catholics. Pro- free public schools which the American people love as a priceless treasure, and by your opposition to these schools you deprive Irish and German-American children of the advantage of receiving education at the hands of teachers selected by Americans as ple, Ike Gentry. Mexico was compelled to banish the Jesuits, the Sisters and various religious orders, in order to secure with those of tyrannized Russia or priest-ridden Spain and Italy or Ire testants are turned out of city employment, and Romanists put into their positions; Public works of every sort Roman Catholic Priests. This startling statement was lately made by Prof.

L. T. Towns nd, of the peace and tranquility. No convents or monasteries are permitted there. teachers fitted to mould American are turned over to your adherents.

land. The bulwark of this great republic, the Eden of labor, is the free public school system and no interference in any form with it or its children into men and women after Storekeepers are taught they must em Boston University false, they can be easily disproven. McNamara's statements cannot be proven false by killing him, and it seems, certain that the mob would never have thrown bricks if they could have hurled facts at him. They used the only weapons they possessed. One may be a democrat and openly attack the republican party and its methods.

He may be a free trader and denounce the advocates of a high tariff in no measured or polished terms. He may be a prohibitionist and denounce saloon keepers as the embodiment of all that is vile. He may dub the bi-metalists (many of whom depend for a living on the continued use of silver as money) as selfish and unprincipled creatures who would wreck the nation's prosperity to advance their own. He may declare the Mormon church to be a vile caricature of religion, for the Mormons are but few in numbers and most of them a long way off. He may attack spiritualism as a manifestation of diabolic power, and declare its mediums to be either vile impostors or unhappy beings under Satanic influence.

"We hold in our hands here a slip ploy Catholics and reject protestants. the model of their patriotic ancestors. This is a crying injustice to the fami-the families of Irish and Germans in of paper containing the names of 101 Roman Catholio priests of the diocese Business places of all kinds are invaded by Catholics, who resort to every advantages should be permitted. It foul method to make protestants feel of Archbishop Williams, of the city of Boston, who within a few years have America, and is a gross insult and outrage offered to people who love their schools as the fountains of in that only Catholics will be tolerated is the friend and educator of labor, has been the school of our fathers and is the school for present and future generations. Education and patriotism derive been dismissed, suspended or other telligence, and as the cradle and bul And all this has been brought about by you and your priests, who have used the influence of their position to wise disqualified, and who, taken together were guilty of almost every wark of liberty for future generations their strongest impetus therefrom and on American soil.

while Europe makes soldiers, lords Now when protestant citizens come The church of Rome cursed the country with its pirate, Cortez, and she has been its curse ever since. It taught no morality to the Mexicans. It bred in them vice, crime, intolerance and bigotry. Its priests in Mexico, maintained mistresses, but no parochial schools, except to teach the catechism and bead-counting. It taught no morality, but practiced immorality.

Mexico, up to twenty years ago, was a fitting example of what Romanism could and would do for a people. Liberty. Catholic Appointments Oppoeed. The Washington correspondent of the Inter Ocean notes the fact that non-Catholic democrats are strenuously opposing the appointment, by President Cleveland, of Martin J. Russell lor collector of the Chicago Federal district, and of Frank Lawler crime in the calendar of crimes.

And we are to bear in mind that rarely are Roman Catholic priests disciplined unless their irregularities and iniquities become notorious. Here before and paupers, America makes citizens, workmen and scholars. together to discuss these things in a truthful manner, your adherents as It is to the workmen of this country we must look for further advancement us. we repeat, are the names of 101 disgraced Roman Catholic clergymen as a nation. As a rule, when freed from the influence of political trick semble on the streets and in the halls to curse in regular Roman fashion and to fling missies at the speaker, in the presence of policemen, and of ladies and gentlemen assembled as a peaceful audience.

Not only this, but the Archbishop Williams can give you a duplicate of this list, if he chooses to sters and priestly dictators, both dan He may do this in spite of the known fact that spiritualism includes among its followers many of the brightest and best minds of the age. But spiritualists don't throw rocks in place of do so." gerous leaders and enemies of labor, exalt or to cast down, according as it suits your interests. Your priests are trained to boycott business houses and to dominate sources of employment, so that protestants may be discharged and yonr adherents put in their plaees. The daily papers of this city are so manipulated as to be an eye-sore on the newspaper profession. In deference to your wishes they are ever ready to parade your performances, to suppress the constant scandals proceeding from the indecent character of priests, while they never lose an opportunity to display, exaggerate and falsify whatever may be turned to the discredit of protestant churches and their ministers.

The best people of Kansas City know Suppose the same could be said of the workmen are on the side of a vigorous enforcement of the law and good government. facts, and those who attack them know it very well. any protestant denomination the daily press would join all its forces to hold that denomination up to public execration. Suppose the Sun and the daily papers have not a word of condemnation for your drunkards and rowdies who disgrrce this population. Nay, one leading daily, the Kansas City Star, went beyond all decency on the 15th inst.

to please you and your Ignoring the fact that agnosticism can rightly claim many of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the age World and the Herald should turn for United States Marshall of Illinois, because they are Catholic. Incidentally it is mentioned that the new postmaster, Ileiing, is a Catholic, and the non-Catholics protest against all the important offices being filled by members of one church. In support their editorial light in the direction of ho may also attack it and roundly de clare it to be a soul-destroying belief, the last mother's son of whose adherents the devil will most assuredly priests and politicians and ruffians, and to say: "Certainly no person can be excused who doesn't throw a stone accurately enough to hit the object in view." That is your humble servant, at whom a miscreant flung a missle while I waa addressing my audience in Kansas City on Sunday evening, of their opposition to Russell and Lawler, they have notified the president that the municipal, Federal and state grab, and though there are thousands of agnostics in Kansas City today not one among the number will injure him. He may do all that I have enumerated, and very much more, in perfect safety, but should he dare attack the RomanCatholic church.may or will Jan. 14, 1894.

Now, sir, with such facts in view, offices in Chicago are already filled by Catholics as follows: the miyor, chief of police, chief of the fire department, postmaster, state's attorney, clerks of the circuit, probate and superior courts, a number of the judges of the Labor's rights and interests should have the fullest protection that justice and right demands. At the free public schools the youth of American laborers are qualified and made competent to master opportunity and ascend, step by step, to the highest planes of success, commercial influence and political power. Workmen, citizens, stand by this system of education, now being assailed by the bishops and priests in this country. The public school is not only the friend of labor but of labor's posterity Combination on the part of labor is but an act of self defense and creates a new and powerful friend, one of ponderous strength if properly handled. This combination should work for economic laws that will prevent the necessity of strikes and boycotts, which are both enemies, or tools of enemies, of labor.

It should favor the giving of labor and capital each its reasonable rights, the people of Kansas City and of these United States have a right to hold yon and the whole Romish hierarchy re Rome! The Christian Inquirer. Rome In Paraguay. The Argus is authority for stating that in Paraguay, where every person is a Roman Catholic, ninety eight per cent, of the population can neither read nor write and but two per cent of the births are legitimate. With such an example before them it is not to be wondered at that the protestants of the United States are backward about giving the priests any more power here. Attacked an A.

I'. A. Frank Wordman, a St. Louis railroad man, entered a saloon yesterday and announced that he had joined the A. P.

A. He was immediately attacked by three or four men and beaten into an unconscious condition. His jaw was broken and he was otherwise badly injured, His assailants the good Lord protect him, for the civic authorities and the newspapers won't? and if the pious devotees of the church several courts, forty five of the sixty openly influenced the owners of public halls in this city so that, in most cases, they refuse to rent halls to any association that seeks to enlighten people on the injuries and injustice brought npon them by the leaders and partisans of your politico-religious system. Your hoodlums have heretofore paraded the streets with a halter to hang to a lamp post a lecturer who came here to talk like a scholar and a gentleman about the outrages which yonr party have inflicted npon protestant people, and Romish policemen of this city have, during these disturbances, refused to qnell the riot, and positively declared they would be willing to shoot such lecturer or allow him to be murdered by the Catholics of this city. Kow, I come to Kansas sponsible for the disorders and bad citizenship arising from the bad example and false teaching which yonr get their hands on him he'll soon be past praying for.

eight aldermen, ninety five per cent, of the police force, and sixty seven per cent, of the school teachers. In view of this condition of affairs, the non-Catholic democrats deemed it nec lawless adherants receive. And you The answer bnt too many Cathlics cannot reasonably object if here, especially, an outraged public call your give to stjictures on their religion is a brick in rapid motion and aimed at the head of the critic. Now a flying brick may be the natural expression essary to interpose their objections, attention to the state of things above described. I thank God that many Catholics of a deep religious fervor.

It may be lest the Federal Government should render itself liable to unpleasant criticism. It is uncertain what action the president will take. are sorry and ashamed that all I here say is only too true. And hoping escaped. Chicago Herald.

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